In Memoriam articles

95 years of questioning the reality of planned, brutal mass executions, the ethnic cleansing of a people from their place is far too long. Up against a looming deadline, a threat of losing their history and identity, a new generation of Armenians is waking up to an economic collapse, disappearing Diasporas, and questionable leadership.

Requiem Services (Karasounk) for Allen Yekikian and his wife, Sosé Thomassian-Yekikian, who tragically perished in a car accident on May 10 in Georgia, are planned for Tuesday, the late couple’s families announced.

Just like any other day in my life during the past 25 months, on the morning of May 11, I was busy with the kids when my sister came out of her room and said, “Ahh, I’m so tired. Barely slept last night.”

I hate the lack of control over my body’s physical reaction to pain—not the pain of a torn meniscus or a bumped shoulder, but pain that makes you sick to your stomach, changes your breathing pattern and makes you wish your heart was numb to all feelings

BY MELODY NAZARIAN She wore white on her wedding day And gleamed from head to toe And though I wasn’t present there I could still see the glow. The way she peered into her Allen’s eyes She couldn’t hide her awe if she tried They were married in August in Armenia, With smiles they couldn’t…